conducted with teachers from different educational areas with different skills. Theresult was in any case a correct installation of laboratory testing; a robot arm; and the onlydifferences were reflected in a little more time in cases where teachers have less knowledge ofcomputer/electronics.Regarding the use of the system by the students, all of them accessed the system through alogin/password traditional login and they could manipulate and control the robotic or electricalequipment both as a group; leaded by the teacher, or individually in slots of 15 minutes ofduration or through a pre-booking system integrated into SiLaRR and that can be configured bythe administrator and managed using the software.To achieve the universalization of system we
me tremendously…”; 2008: “…played a vital role…”). Interestingly, the students inthe internal program appear to provide more emphasis on the significant impact of their facultymentors in their long-term academic plans and careers (2008: “…personal adviser to best helpme make career decisions.”; 2008: “conversations…about life in academia and about thechallenges associated with it”; 2011: “..a one of a kind professor, researcher, and mentor.”). The REU program selected students based on an expressed interest in research careers.However, the internal program did not have such goals, selecting students based primarily onprevious experience with faculty mentors. This was reflected in student comments (2009: “Iwanted to become a practicing
are conductedby the Internship Mentor. The mentor completes a form assessing the intern’s quality of work,organization and efficiency, knowledge base, communication skills, working relationships,strengths, and weaknesses. They also provide an overall performance score as well assuggestions on how the intern could improve their overall score. Internship Mentors have tomeet with the interns to discuss their performance evaluations, and Faculty Mentors are providedcopies of the evaluations to also discuss with the students during their monthly phone calls. Atthe same time as the Performance Evaluations, students must complete a form providingfeedback to their Internship Mentor and self-reflection on their performance. Students evaluatetheir
the area around thebulb with reflective surfaces allowing optimal air and surface disinfection9.Basic Engineering. The next phase in the design process is to establish specifications for theequipment to be used in the proposed system. Once the students had a better understanding ofcloning chambers and the way they operate, the basic engineering phase was more of atraditional set of calculations, closer to their engineering concepts. The following items werespecified:Material selection. Plywood with proper finish can be moisture and UV resistant as well asreflect light, which are all important aspects to the system. Plywood with mortise and tenonwould eliminate the need for any extra framing. This would reduce material cost and weight.The
obstacles or achieve breakthroughs. • Describes major accomplishments of the team. • Conveys a deep understanding of the impact the project has or can have on a community, market, sponsor, industry or profession. • Several team members are engaged, with questions answered clearly and confidently in a way that complements the entire exhibit experience. Team members are able to effectively reflect on the professional experience they have gained.Although there is some duplication of the in-class assessment, the judges’ criteria provides aslightly different perspective, with less emphasis on the process and a greater focus on the finalproduct and each team’s presentation skills. The average IPRO exposition score in our
response is legitimatelyviewed as exercising multiple skills. This is consistent with our wanting students to integratetheir knowledge to respond to some problems. So, the same simple skill might be exercised inisolation and then as part of a question that requires other skills as well. While the statisticalmodeling associated with Learning Curve Analysis allows for multiple skills to be reflected inthe response to a question, the desirable decreasing error rate seems to be particularly rare in thecase of skills that are sometimes exercised in conjunction with other skills. Second, because the Page 26.724.8materials cover an entire semester-long
toward opposition to fracking and the 4th-year students were equally split in support of andopposition to fracking. The reason for this difference is unclear, but perhaps reflects differencesin cohort predispositions. The 4th-year students may exercise more critical thinking, or may havepre-professional experiences to draw from. The 1st-year students are predominately non-STEMmajors, and perhaps more influenced by the abundance and accessibility of opposition literature. Page 26.725.5Regardless, the activity appears to be effective in facilitating students’ opinion formation, whilethey gain factual knowledge. The third
supporting team processes. The platform is informed by foundational knowledge onteam effectiveness from the industrial and organization psychology field and by social-constructivist learning theory.Theoretical FoundationWorking in teams requires that students learn how to interact with each other, share and processinformation in a collaborative learning environment. There is vast evidence indicating thebenefits of collaborative learning grounded in social-constructivist learning theory10. Socialconstructivist learning theory suggests that learning is largely a social process and that deepunderstanding develops through collaboration and engagement with others11,12. Collaborativework largely reflects the actual environment in engineering-intensive
, data, rubrics and assorted documentation will facilitate preparation for the on-site accreditation visit. All faculty work is shared and available, eliminating the need to access different computer drives, locations and addresses.Course ReflectionA long-standing process initiated by the department, the course reflection form is an importantself-appraisal executed by the instructor at the close of every semester. The form is a personalevaluation of how well the semester progressed. It encourages the instructor to consider the Page 26.807.8changes made, their apparent effectiveness within the classroom and recommendations for
stable and last for many years c. Ensuring that the manufacturing process is sound from a business perspective d. Reducing the need for personnel and operators so that the process runs itself 3. Fair Trade, as related to chocolate, is: a. Making sure that only pure cocoa is used in the product b. Making sure that the stock brokers buying chocolate stocks were not ripped off c. Making sure that the product is sold for a price that reflects the ingredients and resources (including employees) required to produce it d. Making sure that the product was produced without slave labor 4. A standard Hershey’s chocolate bar has how many grams of sugar? a. 8 grams b. 35 grams
are asked to design posters to advertise the various activity booths (Figure 3). Their job is tochoose an activity booth (Step 1), design a poster for it (Step 2), and “market test” the posterwith a focus group (Step 3). Students then choose either positive (“I like…”) or negativefeedback (“I don’t like…”) (Step 4) from each of three characters (see Figure 3.B). After readingthe feedback (Step 5), students can choose to revise (Step 6) or submit their poster (Step 7).Upon submission, students can see their booth’s “ticket sales” reflecting the quality of theirposter design. There are three rounds of posters to design, thus nine opportunities to choosepositive or negative feedback. The key measure is whether the students choose
engineer’s career. This is not due to any type of negative impressionof such students, but rather from an unawareness of the issue. Many organizations’representatives, when contacted, were sympathetic to the issues faced by such students; however, Page 26.859.6due to the lack of knowledge of what options existed, it was difficult to gather information aboutwhat options may exist; this difficulty is reflected in the relatively small list of organizationsrepresented in this study.Future work should include further investigation, with a broader sampling of engineering andprofessional societies represented. Furthermore, the value of professional societies
. Page 26.861.7Unfortunately, the sample size (n=13) was very small for this study. While the trend is good,since the participation was voluntary it is impossible to know if this is reflective of the class as awhole. The author is working on duplicating this study in other courses to increase the samplesize since the IRB is not comfortable with making participating mandatory.Secondly, the flipped classroom technique may be cumbersome to new faculty. The initial timeto construct videos, while not recorded here, has been shown to take approximately 80 hours6.However, once the videos are produced the preparation time for the course may be less than forthat of a traditional lecture course. New faculty may also benefit from the video lectures
overcome their academic weakness. Also, the class environment can be better nourished bythe students’ academic strength and capability.However, the American teaching style creates challenges for the Chinese students as well 1, 2, 7, 11,12, 13 . These challenges are primarily reflected by the language and cultural barriers, such as lackof written and oral communication skills in English, unfamiliarity in English technicalterminology, and lack of involvement in classroom dynamics. The authors of the paper believedthat if the instructors can effectively help the Chinese students get over these barriers, thestudents will gain much more from the American classroom environment. To build such alearning environment, the instructors built a three
visits from practicingprofessionals within the field. This may be promising news for the K-12 classroom, in that thisrequires the re-definition of what students do in the classroom, not the acquisition of additionalspeakers. Locating willing STEM speakers can be challenging; securing motivational speakerscan be close to impossible.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0930257. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. National Research Council. Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science
Figure 1. This type of product has become popular inrestaurants, but its limited lifespan and recyclability present some opportunities for improvingsustainability. The numbers in the table were not intended to reflect reality, only to providestudents with an example of what the analysis might look like. Figure 1: Disposable, non-refillable pepper grinder used for sample sustainability analysis9Business measures such as cost, profit, and marketability were included in the table. Theentrepreneur must also understand that a product must be “sustainable” in an economic sense aswell; an extremely “green” product which no one would buy due to cost or inconvenience is nota sustainable one.Students were also required to conduct a market
completed by Schunn and Patchan3 and Knewton.4 This paper willinclude one specific university’s approach to revising college algebra using multipleinterventions including AL technology delivered using Intellipath™ within its online courses.This research includes work that began in the fall of 2012 (October term), and the resultspresented reflect 13 terms (each term equals one five-and-a-half-week session, two sessions in aquarter, eight total terms per year, equaling four quarters) of data (2,000 students). The results ofthis CTU’s approach to college algebra indicate many improvements including a reduction instudent failure and withdraw rates. Student success in college algebra has been a concern for educators for many years. In2002
feedback about theirperformance on the project prior to the second set of questionnaires. Based on previousexperience of the instructor in teaching the same class, students typically favorably rate any formof assignment where the class average score is high. This trend is reflected in the response to thesecond question in the questionnaires. Amongst the three forms of assessments prior to the firstquestionnaire, the least number of students indicated quizzes as useful in self-evaluation, whilemost students indicated home works as the most useful mechanism for self-evaluation. It isimportant to note the direct correlation between the response and the average grades in theseassignments. While the average home work grade prior to the first
in the United States haveintroduced BIM into undergraduate and graduate education.4 As BIM practices emerge andbecome codified, it is clear that CEM programs in higher education need to play a vital role inBIM education. To reflect the growing demand for BIM in the construction industry, CEMprograms have been trying to teach BIM skills and VDC knowledge to students, integrating withtraditional or mainstream courses more broadly.There have been some studies to evaluate the level of BIM education in higher education. Thesestudies have revealed that BIM education is still in the early adoption stage even though severalCEM programs have actively promoted BIM-enabled learning.5, 6, 7 It may be necessary tounderstand the reasons why BIM is being
reflect on their learning experiences in the course compared toother courses taken throughout their time at university. The survey consisted of 50 randomizedmultiple choice questions, provided in both positive and negative voice, with five possible answersto select from: strongly disagree (SD), disagree (D), neutral (N), agree (A), and strongly agree (SA) Page 26.75.6(Table 1).Table 1. Online survey questions and responses (n = 21 out of 23 students) at the conclusion of the course.The questions were automatically randomized for each student by the survey software.Question
component waspresented. The online discussion component of this model was able to create a virtual interactivepeer-assisted learning environment outside-the-classroom. The supporting lecture notes werepublished especially to aid the delivery of the online video content of this course. This made themodel hybrid in nature lecture notes/video-based flipped classroom. This seemed to appeal to alarge population of engineering students’ learning styles. In addition, this model provided a levelof student ownership in the learning process which motivated them to perform better. The briefin class review represented a capstone reflection of what the students’ were able to learn andeven help clarify any outstanding misconceptions through an effective student
= 437) interest in math, science,engineering, and technology increasing, along with their proficiency in problem solvingmethods. We believe this is a reflection of embedding STEM principles in an exciting,hands-on activity. This paper outlines the three-year effort, discussing the ROV activity,associated curriculum taught, and also presents the measurement tools used to aggregatethe student and teacher data points and associated results.Background For the last decade there has been a general call to promote interest andcompetency in STEM education. This called has echoed from various sources rangingfrom the President of the United States [1] and the Department of Defense [2] toindependent companies [3] concerned with fulfilling future
active learning approach2,3,4;• promoting a better interpretation of physics and its application in practical situations5promoting activities where students can understand how physics works instead of just doingcalculations;• developing skills and competencies for a professional life as an Engineer6, such as gainingan understanding of different cultures, foreign language skills, oral and written expression,time management, and teamwork, amongst others.The pedagogical features of the developed project were as follows:• development of scientific thinking and reflection using physical problems. Page 26.147.3• application of real problems with increasing
. Page 26.149.3The Lean Enterprise Institute founded by Womack 1 (1997) is aiming at developing educationalmethods and workshops to promote training about lean tools. Nontraditional instructionalmethods such as learning-by-doing methods, active and collaborative learning techniques aregetting more popular in the past few years. This trend is mostly reflected by introducing variousphysical simulation or computer games (gamification) and is growing rapidly due to theirpositive impact on learning process [1, 2]. The literature study illustrates a large pool ofeducational simulation games targeting different lean concepts and principles such as pullproduction, one piece flow, Jidoka, 5S, Poka Yoke and waste elimination. TimeWise simulation,Veebots
sufficiently undersized to slideinto the slots on both enclosures. Upon measuring the parts, they found that panel thickness wasthe same as the slot width, leaving no room for clearance. After further reflection and discussionwith the faculty mentors, the students realized that the specified clearances were less than the.012” minimum layer thickness of the Dimension machine. In slicing the STL into individualcross sections, the slight difference was not captured as in effect it “rounded up” and printedanother .012” layer when only a fraction of that thickness was specified by the CAD file. Thiswas remedied by using a deburring knife and razor to slightly trim the guide slots until the panelwas able to slide in with reasonable effort.A second challenge
Page 26.173.2junior years, within the chemical engineering profession survey, materials and energy balances,thermodynamics, fluid and heat transfer, and reactor design. The project during freshmen year isspecifically an analysis of a Chemical Safety Board completed investigation including futurerecommendations to companies working with similar hazards. Each team is given a differentincident which occurred within the last fifteen years. The students present their findings in aposter session where seniors attend and provide written feedback on both technical aspects andcommunication skills. Self-reflection is required following the poster presentation in an attemptto foster an intrinsic motivation to critically think about the integration of
. The planetary gearset is the centerpiece of thebench-scale hybrid powertrain, which our students are completing over the course of fivesemesters. With the successful completion of the planetary gearset, our students are now readyto begin tackling the challenge of developing an overall control strategy for the hybrid system.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge the support of the NSF-TUES program in the Division ofUndergraduate Education, DUE-1044532, which made this research possible. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography[1] Toyota Motor Corporation, "Toyota Hybrid
training to allow for the material to be reviewed and the feedback to be incorporated into the final curriculum. Creating a secondary training module benefits future trainers because it provides guidelines and improves recall of the material to be taught in the training.AcknowledgementsThe training material is being produced under grant number SH-26316-SH4 from theOccupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does notnecessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention oftrades names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S.Government
and reflecting student feedback. New Generation Rapid Prototyping Final Version of Rapid Prototyping Simulator developed based on Simulator Software uPrint® SE Plus 3D Printer Rapid Prototyping Simulator integration in: Additive Manufacturing, Rapid
objectives from #5 d. Reflection and feedback (coaching) in your small group of other leaders e. Any other leadership aspect you plan to employ 7. Explain the metrics that you must attain/assess in order to meet your objectives from #5 Page 26.534.4 8. Describe how you will hold your teammates (other leader) accountable for progress 12687The heart of the model is that the students address these objectives for the capstone leadershipexperience within a small group (a cadre of 3-5 students) while building the team